History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

This thing smells wrong. They should be making sure that there's no hint whatsoever of any political inside deal, any relationship with campaign contributions.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

The Civil War.

OK, I'm going with Altman,